---
type: "Bill"
title: "Durham Voluntary Annexations/Adjacent Streets."
description: "Durham Voluntary Annexations/Adjacent Streets."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 256"
citation: "North Carolina SB 256 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANNEXATION", "CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "RATIFIED", "ROADS & HIGHWAYS", "SESSION LAWS", "TRANSPORTATION", "DURHAM COUNTY", "DURHAM", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKissick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-11"
last_action: "2015-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55b07503-7881-428b-b887-e8117bb43015"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S256&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "d8011388a3b2aacc089681d2135a91ab7820393c5ef554e2b959e5729710a4a6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina SB 256 (2015) — Durham Voluntary Annexations/Adjacent Streets.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S256v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S256v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S256v2.pdf)
4. **SL2015-82** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S256v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **87–30** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **95–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McKissick — primary (person)
- Woodard — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2015-06-18** Ch. SL 2015-82 `became-law`
- **2015-06-18** Ratified
- **2015-06-17** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-06-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-06-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-06-15** Placed On Cal For 06/16/2015
- **2015-06-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-06-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-05-28** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-05-27** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2015-05-27** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2015-05-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-05-21** Placed On Cal For 05/26/2015
- **2015-05-21** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-05-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-28** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-20** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-12** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-11** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55b07503-7881-428b-b887-e8117bb43015`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).